[mythtv-users] Help: One currupt recording -> cannot record anything anymore

Thomas Börkel thomas at boerkel.de
Tue Feb 24 06:11:52 EST 2004


Answering my own question:

I created the missing .nuv file with touch and disabled the live preview 
for the delete recordings screen. Then I could delete it. MythTV crawled 
for a few seconds while bringing up the delete confirm dialog, but now 
everything seems to be OK again.

Thomas Börkel wrote:
> HI!
> 
> Somehow one of my capture cards stopped working (no data from 
> /dev/video0). This resulted in a corrupt recording. There is no .nuv 
> file but MythTV thinks, there is a recording.
> 
> I cannot delete that corrupted recording from within MythTV and I cannot 
> record anything anymore.
> 
> What can I do? Can I delete that specific recording from the database 
> directly with mysql (how?)?
> 
> I don't want to delete the whole database and loose all my recordings.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 
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